Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...facilities for the public will include experiments in providing guide service for school children, with guides drawn from members of the staff, who will be available by appointment to conduct school classes and groups of ten or over through the Museum. In the second half-year it is planned to hold a series of free, public lectures on new research and expeditions of the Museum...
...Discipline has a broader significance than mere punishment. ... It is secured through mental, moral and physical training combined with an intelligent understanding of the reasons for standards and conduct and the objectives in view. . . . Poor discipline is generally the result of inferior leadership and is evidenced by excessive courts-martial; a high percentage of desertion and absence without leave; slovenly dress, inattention to saluting . . . general inefficiency. . . . The successful leader must, first, have a thorough understanding on his own part of [these principles]. . . . Further, he must constantly keep in mind the twin objectives of the selective service...
...early as 1929 he raided the high-brow symphonic repertory to make Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre into a Silly Symphony. But the idea did not really sprout until early in 1938, when Leopold Stokowski, on a visit to Hollywood, begged Disney to let him conduct the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse short. Disney didn't know what he was letting himself...
...Other socially-conscious students aided science by swallowing stomach pumps at the Massachusetts General Hospital that the Reogenologists might conduct their researches on the fluoroscopes for the benefit of mankind." Duhig reported...
...former Government instructor here, and one time assistant managing editor of the CRIMSON, who recently resigned his post as regional director of the Wages and Hours Commission to conduct his campaign, Eliot seems to have taken a clean sweep from Luce...